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Global Outrage After Israeli Strike On Gaza Hospital Kills 20; Australia Expels Iranian Diplomats Over Antisemitic Attacks; South Korean President Lee Urges Trump To Revive Diplomacy With North Korea; National Guard Members Now Carrying Weapons In D.C.; Judge Says Abrego Garcia Should Remain in the U.S.; International Efforts for Ceasefire Appear to Stall; Maduro Calls on Venezuelans to Join the Military; Key U.S. Tariff Exemption for Small Businesses End Friday; Musk's X-AI Sues Apple, OpenAI for Blocking Competition; One Dead in Vietnam after Kajiki Makes Landfall as Typhoon. Aired 1-2a ET
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JOHN VAUSE, CNN ANCHOR: There sure are a lot of dead reporters in Gaza despite Israeli claims they're not being targeted. Ahead on CNN Newsroom.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALT: This is the deadliest conflict for journalists that CPJ has ever documented.
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VAUSE: Israel accused of a systematic campaign to silence the truth with five journalists among the 22 dead after a double strike on a hospital in southern Gaza.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): You can go play golf there. You could play the role of the peacemaker of the century that the world already recognizes.
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VAUSE: Charm offensive. South Korea's president lays it on thick while meeting with President Trump. But what did he get in return?
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DONALD TRUMP, U.S. PRESIDENT: Next should be Chicago because as you all know, Chicago is a killing field right now.
(END VIDEO CLIP) VAUSE: Well, you know, the murder rate is down by a third, but you know, could Chicago be the next major city with National Guard troops on patrol?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Live from Atlanta. This is CNN Newsroom with John Vause.
VAUSE: Israel is at the center of renewed outrage after killing five more journalists in Gaza. There are among more than 20 people who died in a back to back Israeli strike on Nasser Hospital, what was until Monday the last major functioning hospital in the Palestinian territory. And in a rare public admission, the Israeli military has confirmed it carried out the attack.
Sources tell CNN the first strike came from an Israeli tank hitting the hospital's fourth floor. As volunteers and first responders raced to the scene, another tank round was fired. The target appears to have been located near a balcony used by photojournalists for an elevated view of the city of Khan Younis, which according to the U.N. is currently within an Israeli militarized zone and under evacuation orders.
The spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces says an investigation is underway. While insisting Israel does not target reporters or civilians, the Israeli prime minister has expressed deep regret for what he described as a tragic mishap. In a moment, we get the very latest from CNN's Paula Hancocks. But first, a warning. Some of the images you are about to see are disturbing.
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PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A rush towards Gaza's Nasser Hospital after an Israeli strike Monday morning. Emergency response crews, health workers and journalists can be seen on live television on a damaged staircase. A television camera is held up. Reuters says a photojournalist working for them is killed. A white body back is carried away. And then a second Israeli strike.
Smoke hides the staircase from view. When the dust settles, five journalists and four health workers are among more than 20 killed. Palestinian journalists who form the backbone of international coverage of this war, working with AP, Reuters and Al Jazeera, among others.
Israel does not allow international media to enter Gaza beyond restrictive embedding with its military. A double strike just minutes apart. The second impact killing workers rushing to help casualties from the first.
JODIE GINSBERG, CEO, COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS: Just to be clear, if it is a double tap that is considered to be a war crime, this attack, which we believe was deliberately intended to take out the camera, camera being used by Reuters cameraman. He was killed in the first attack.
HANCOCKS (voice-over): Israel's military says it, quote, carried out a strike in the area of Nasser Hospital, but does not target journalists or civilians. The chief of staff has ordered an inquiry into the attacks. The IDF, adding it, quote, acts to mitigate harm to uninvolved individuals while maintaining the safety of IDF troops.
An Israeli security official with knowledge of an initial inquiry says forces identified a camera on the roof of the hospital they claim Hamas was using to monitor Israeli forces authorized to strike the camera with a drone. The IDF instead fired two tank shells, the source said, the first at the camera, the second at rescue forces.
Marian Abu Dagha, 33 years old, worked for AP and other outlets throughout the war, most recently highlighting the impact of famine in Gaza.
In this recent video, she says, I can't describe how tired people are, how sad or how hungry they are.
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It's been two years of this war on Gaza they can't handle anymore. She spoke to CNN last year about her concerns for her safety, saying when a journalist is targeted, all other media question when it will be their turn.
At her funeral Monday, her family mourns a death they had feared for the 22 months of this war.
Marian has a son. Her cousin says he went abroad with his father at the start of the war. She was waiting for the war to end so she could see him again.
An injured journalist working for Reuters says he went to check on his colleague after the first strike but saw he had been killed. There were journalists, patients, nurses, civil defense on the stairs. He says were directly targeted. A 22-month war which has been the deadliest ever for journalists. Paula Hancocks CNN, Abu Dhabi.
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VAUSE: Joining me now is CNN military analyst and retired U.S. Air Force colonel Cedric Leighton. Colonel, it's good to see you. Thanks for being with us.
COL. CEDRIC LEIGHTON (RET.), CNN MILITARY ANALYST: You bet, John. Good to be with you.
VAUSE: OK. So CNN's reporting on what went wrong during that Israeli strike on the hospital in Khan Younis, according to an Israeli security official. IDF forces identified a camera on the roof of the hospital that a black claimed that was being used by Hamas to monitor the Israeli military. The forces received authorization to strike the camera with a drone, the source said, but instead Israeli forces fired two tank shells, the first at the camera and the second at rescue forces.
So that's the what the -- what went wrong? It doesn't explain the how does a drone strike become two tank rounds with first responders as a target?
LEIGHTON: Yes, that's actually a really good question, John, because when you decide on a particular target set, you have to look at exact kinds of weapons you're going to be using, what kind of munitions. All of those things factor into deciding how you're going to, in essence, prosecute the target and then eliminate it.
So in this particular case, what you have is a different weapon being used from the one that was raised through the chain of command. And that very fact created a real problem for the Israelis because they're using ammunition that was not authorized by the higher echelon, according to these reports.
And as a result of that that may have caused disproportionate damage and it certainly hit, in essence, the wrong target. To kill all those journalists was clearly not the intent of the first request. And that, of course, creates some major issues there.
VAUSE: It's probably a coincidence, but in the past, targeting first responders, it's been a tactic of terror groups with double suicide bombings. And at the end of 2023, just as part of this, the Israelis stopped using the knock on the roof warning ahead of military strikes.
But they still, you know, they order evacuations from a target area and they will advise people what's coming by dropping leaflets. So I guess in so many ways this is why this strike seems so unusual.
LEIGHTON: Yes, it's certainly unusual. And it's reminiscent of the tactics that the Russians use, the double tap tactics that they use against Ukrainians. So this is something that is not usual for the IDF and it should never be used. It does violate the laws of armed conflict because you never go after first responders and you certainly never go after journalists.
So in two phases of this, you have some problems with the laws of armed conflict and really with the way in which the Israeli targeting process is supposed to work. It's very much on paper, very similar to what the U.S. process is like, but in practice it diverges significantly.
VAUSE: In a video statement, the spokesperson for the IDF first blame Hamas for using, you know, creating this complicated situation, then also went on to say, journalists are at a risky area and they shouldn't be there, and then added this.
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BRIG. GEN. EFFIE DEFRIN, ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES SPOKESPERSON: As a professional military committed to international law, we are obligated to investigate our operations thoroughly and professionally. The Chief of the General Staff has instructed that an inquiry be conducted immediately to understand the circumstances of what happened and how it happened. As always, we will present our findings as transparently as possible.
(END VIDEO CLIP) VAUSE: Over the past 688 days of war, the Israelis have publicly committed to investigating dozens of incidents like this one. I've lost count. Have you seen any final outcome of any of those investigations, let alone any investigation which came back and said, yes, we did it our bad?
LEIGHTON: No, I have not. And that's significant. One of the key elements here is if you're going to have transparency, there also has to be a degree of punishment if there is someone who is culpable or someone in the chain of command who made a mistake.
So that kind of public admonishment of members of the chain of command to authorize something like this is something that we've not seen in these 688 days.
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And that is a significant shortcoming. They say that they're going to conduct a transparent investigation, but we have never seen the results of such investigations or have anybody that we know of at least punished or court martialed or have anything of that type happen to them.
VAUSE: Cedric Leighton, thank you very much for being with us. We appreciate it, sir. Thank you.
LEIGHTON: You bet, John. Thanks for having me.
VAUSE: At this hour in Israel, 10 minutes past 8 on a Tuesday morning, protesters are blocking rush hour traffic on major highways, setting tires on fire and causing major delays. Protesters are demanding an end to the war in Gaza, for the Israeli government to strike a deal which will bring the last remaining hostages home.
The decision by the Israeli prime minister and his security cabinet to expand and continue what is already the country's longest running war on has sparked weeks of protests across the country.
The Australian government has expelled Iran's ambassador and other diplomatic staff in Canberra and now have seven days to leave.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albany says an investigation has found Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard was behind an arson attack on a Sydney restaurant and another attack at a synagogue in Melbourne, both described by the prime minister as extraordinary and dangerous acts of aggression. Not since World War II has an ambassador been expelled from Australia.
South Korea's new president was at the White House Monday for his first meeting with Donald Trump. For a leader with little international experience, what many considered his first major foreign policy test since taking office sitting bolt upright, President Lee Jae Myung told Trump he was the first U.S. President interested in world peace. He urged him to play the role of world peacemaker, maybe even bring peace between north and South Korea. CNN's Jeff Zeleny has more now reporting in from the White House.
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JEFF ZELENY, CNN CHIEF U.S. NATIONAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT: President Trump met with South Korean President Lee in the Oval Office on Monday, the latest world leader to come pay their respects and meet the American president. But it was clear for at least Mr. Trump's part, he had North Korea on his mind.
TRUMP: I'd like to have a meeting. I look forward to meeting with Kim Jong Un in the appropriate future.
ZELENY: Now, during an hour long session in the Oval Office, President Trump repeatedly heaped praise on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who of course Trump had a meeting with in 2018 and met with him twice in 2019 trying to forge a partnership, a relationship that did not end up going anywhere.
Of course, the president, as he said North Korea had major potential, did not once mention the nuclear weapons program that it's at the center of the of course, the challenges and controversy that North Korea has and certainly the conflict they have with their neighbors to the south.
But President Trump, even as he repeatedly praised North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, he did also have a warm relationship, he said, with South Korea. He said he wanted to have a good relationship. There were some concerns about would there be a tense meeting because President Lee is a new leader. Of course, he won the presidency in June.
Conservatives in South Korea are not thrilled by him by any stretch. And President Trump gave some indication going into the meeting that he was also not seeing President Lee with very warm feelings. But that all dissipated.
So, there was some discussions about shipbuilding, some discussions about economic growth. But one thing that hangs over the relationship, of course, between the U.S. and longtime ally South Korea is China. And that was something that was clearly not resolved in the open session at least. But there was a lunch and a closed door session where that was discussed even more.
And President Trump was asked about the decision if he would leave the number of U.S. troops in South Korea, and he did not answer that question. He said it's not appropriate to do so. But clearly the meeting went well on Monday in the Oval Office, even as President Trump seemed to focus slightly more on North Korea than South. Jeff Zeleny, CNN, the White House.
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VAUSE: Live now to Honolulu and Jean Lee, presidential chair at the East-West Center and former Seoul bureau chief for the Associated Press. Thanks for being with us.
JEAN LEE: Thanks for having me. VAUSE: So President Lee appears to have learned from other world
leaders visiting the White House there's no such thing as too much praise. Here he is.
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LEE JAE MYUNG, SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT (through translator): I think you are the first president to put a serious effort forward in achieving world peace and creating lasting accomplishments. You could play the role of the peacemaker of the century that the world already recognizes.
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VAUSE: He went on to urge President Trump to meet with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, open up Trump world there and play golf. Overall, though, for a leader with no experience with international affairs, he was sworn into office just a few months ago. He hit the ground running. Many saw this meeting as his first big test. So how did he do?
LEE: He did very well. He was extremely well prepared.
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He did say that he was going to be reading "The Art of the Deal" on the way to Washington, D.C. and I have to say he certainly had a circle of advisors who prepared him well for anything that might come his way. He has been told that flattery is the way to President Trump's heart and clearly put that tactic to the test.
You know, President Trump did use that tactic of trying to unnerve the world leader, as he's done before, but he was pretty unflappable and I have to say, very charming. You know, this is also a chance for all of us to see what he's like on this world stage, see what he's like in his first meeting with President Trump. He is not well known internationally, but he's very well0known back home in South Korea. He's a seasoned politician.
And so I wasn't surprised that he was able to handle. He's handled President Trump because he's handled many personalities. But I think this was very reassuring for the South Korean people, probably reassuring for the American counterparts as well. And I think that there's probably another person that they were that he was trying to signal to, and that's quite possibly Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang. That relationship has not been very good between North Korea and South Korea.
The North Korean leader has rebuffed the overtures on the part of the new South Korean president. But this is an opportunity to show Kim Jong Un that he has the ear of President Trump and that they can work together. So I think that there was another audience that might have been part of that equation.
VAUSE: Jean, they seem like there was a lot going on in this meeting and also about a possible trade deal as well between both countries. And on that, this was Donald Trump's response when he was asked about that trade deal. Here he is.
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TRUMP: Yes, I think we have a deal done. They had some problems with it, but we stuck to our guns. We are going to. They're going to make the deal that they agreed to make.
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VAUSE: And for President, reviving South Korea's economy is a major priority at the moment. It doesn't seem President Trump was much help with that, does it?
LEE: This is another example of how prepared President Lee was coming into this meeting. You know, he has this dual challenge of showing his people that he is ready to lead, even though he had zero transition time when he took office in this very tumultuous environment.
Obviously, for the South Koreans, the economy is one of the major preoccupations in addition to their security. He came prepared to showcase what South Korea has to offer. This is a country that has grown so much in a generation, has gone from being a developing country to one of the world's largest economies. And he was ready to show President Trump that they could be a partner and help President Trump meet his objectives.
Did President Trump do anything to help? I think that this was a moment for South Korea. They're still trying to negotiate the details of that tariff that they agreed to a couple of weeks ago. And so this was an opportunity for him to try to make sure that South Korea is in a good position in that trade negotiation. And I think they did very well.
On top of that, they were able to show what they can do for the U.S. as a partner militarily. So shipbuilding, as you mentioned, is a big part of that. China is the world's largest shipbuilder, that the United States is very weak on that aspect. South Korea is the number two shipbuilder in the world.
So here's an opportunity for South Korea to say, listen, we can help you with investment, we can help you with expertise, we can help you with that rivalry. We can help you regain some military might in the seas.
So I think in some ways, this shows just how well prepared South Korea was for this meeting.
VAUSE" And in terms of military, the U.S. has about 38,000 troops in South Korea. Most are stationed at Camp Humphrey, which sits on three and a half thousand acres. And that's land which the U.S. president wants. Again, here he is.
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VAUSE: You lease us land. There's a big difference between giving and leasing. And maybe one of the things I'd like to do is ask them to give us ownership of the land where we have the big fort. You know, we spent a lot of money building a fort, and there was a contribution made by South Korea.
But I would like to see if we could get rid of the lease and get ownership of the land where we have a massive military base.
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VAUSE: In many ways, this request seemed to come out of the blue, but it's not surprising given Trump's transactional nature. But how big of an issue is this in South Korea? Is this something which is likely to happen?
LEE: It was a surprise to me as well. But he is a real estate tycoon, right? And he's always looking for new ways to cut a deal. This is going to be a very thorny issue between the two countries, and I did not expect them to get into the nitty gritty on this, because what to do with those 28,500 U.S. troops how much South Korea should pay for it. They went through a very contentious round after round negotiation during Trump's first term on how much South Korea should pay for that.
So I think maybe he's looking for another way to extract a little bit more from South Korea.
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But I think that's a really thorny issue. One thing that President Lee did in his talk at CSIS, the think tank in D.C. afterward, was make the case that South Korea wants to have more say in what it does. It wants to take the lead militarily. It's going to invest more and pay more for its own defense, raise the amount of money that it spends on defense.
So, I think that was in some ways his way of asserting that, listen, we're powerful country now on our own, right? We want to have some say in what happens with our military decision making. So I think we're going to see some tough discussions ahead. But they set the tone for a strong relationship between the U.S. and South Korea and between these two leaders.
So hopefully those negotiations will unfold in a less contentious way than they did in the first term.
VAUSE: Jean, thanks so much for being with us. But just before we got one thing which I thought was notable was the body language with President Lee, poll top right whilst he was talking to the president. Just could read a lot into that. Thank you so much for being with us. I appreciate it.
LEE: Thanks for having me.
VAUSE: We'll take a short break. When we come back, President Trump makes a move to expand deployment of the National Guard as part of his crackdown on crime. But not everyone is open to those plans. We'll take you through after a short break.
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VAUSE: So could Chicago be the next U.S. city with National Guard troops on patrol? Sounds like it. President Trump has also signed an executive order calling for the creation of specialized National Guard units to be deployed around the country. And Trump pushed back on accusations that deploying the military to U.S. cities is the action of a dictator.
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TRUMP: I made the statement that next should be Chicago because as you all know, Chicago is a killing field right now. And they don't acknowledge it. And they say we don't need him. Freedom, freedom. He's a dictator. He's a dictator. A lot of people are saying maybe we like a dictator. I don't like a dictator. I'm not a dictator. I'm a man with great common sense and I'm a smart person.
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VAUSE: The Democrat governor of Illinois has a blunt message for President Trump. Don't come to Chicago. We don't want you or need you here. And this is what Chicago's mayor told CNN.
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BRANDON JOHNSON, CHICAGO MAYOR: What the president is proposing is a military occupation of the city of Chicago and cities across America. Our city is not calling for that. In fact, I don't know of any cities in America that are calling for federal troops to occupy their cities. This is clearly unconstitutional. It's illegal, and it's costly.
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VAUSE: And now National Guard members will be carrying weapons while on patrol in Washington with strict guidelines on when and under what circumstances they are to be used. More now from CNN's Brian Todd.
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BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: We have some of the first visuals of our reporting that national guardsmen in Washington, D.C. will now be carrying firearms. We can show you this just over my right shoulder here. Our photojournalist Jay McBike will zoom in. These are National Guards from Guardsmen from the state of Louisiana. You can see the sidearms that they're carrying.
What we're told by a joint task force spokesperson is that the guardsmen, most of them will be carrying M17 pistols, and some of them will be carrying M4 long rifles. But it's important to note this spokesperson told us that the Guard is only supposed to use firearms for, quote, personal protection, meaning self-defense and not for policing.
Now, in relation to the idea of the National Guardsman actually conducting police work, President Trump on Monday signed an executive order tasking Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth with establishing, quote, specialized units in the National Guard that will be trained and equipped to deal with public order issues. And that includes, quote, quelling civil disturbances. So the Guard could, in fact, be doing some police work while they are deployed here in Washington, DC.
I asked Mayor Muriel Bowser about that earlier on Monday when she was at a school event. I caught up to her there. I asked her what her response was to the National Guardsmen carrying firearms in her city. She said she doesn't really have much more to say about all of this except she does not believe that military troops should be conducting policing actions.
Now, separately, I spoke to two aides for Mayor Bowser who told me that the mayor has been in touch with mayors from other cities that President Trump is considering sending National Guardsmen to. These two aides did not tell us which cities, and they wouldn't characterize the specific nature of the conversations, but they did confirm that Mayor Bowser has reached out and has been in touch with the mayors of other cities where this same scene could be repeated if President Trump decides to give that order separately.
What we can tell you also is that according to a White House official, there have now been more than 1,000 arrests made since this law enforcement search began on August 7, including six known gang members, according to this White House official. This official says that 49 homeless encampments have been cleared by multiagency forces here.
And they say that as of Sunday, on Sunday, there were 86 arrests alone in the city. So White House officials, excuse me, claiming success in this law enforcement surge, saying that the city is safer and better off. Now, of course, city officials pushing back on that, saying that violent crime was way down in this city before all of this happened and that this kind of show of force around the city is not at all needed. Brian Todd, CNN, Washington.
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UNDIENTIFIED MALE: We burned this flag in protest to that president who feels that it's his right to do whatever he wants, make whatever law he wants, regardless of his legal or illegal.
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VAUSE: Just hours after President Trump signed an executive order which increases penalties for burning the American flag, man who described himself as a combat veteran was arrested for setting fire to an American flag outside the White House.
He says he did it in protest of the president. He was handcuffed and led away by uniformed security service officers. The Supreme Court ruled in 1989 that flag burning was a protected form
of speech under the First Amendment. In 2012, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told CNN it was a form of expression which was protected because it's often done as criticism of the government.
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ANTONIN SCALIA, FORMER JUSTICE, SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES: Yes. If I were king, I would not allow people to go about burning the American flag. However, we have a First Amendment, which says that the right of free speech shall not be abridged. And it is addressed in particular to speech critical of the government.
I mean, that was the main kind of speech that tyrants would seek to suppress.
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VAUSE: A federal judge has issued an order keeping Kilmar Abrego Garcia in the United States. He's fighting the Trump administration's plans to deport him to Uganda shortly after he was returned from El Salvador's notorious maximum-security prison.
CNN's Priscilla Alvarez has more on this latest development in what's been a long-running saga.
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PRISCILLA ALVAREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: A federal judge in Maryland on Monday said she will soon order officials to keep Kilmar Abrego Garcia in the United States while he challenges his deportation, potentially to Uganda.
Now, Abrego Garcia was mistakenly deported to El Salvador earlier this year before being returned to the United States and then held in custody.
Now, on Friday, he was released from criminal custody and laid low over the weekend until he had to check in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday morning.
In Baltimore, he arrived to the building, embracing his wife before turning himself in to ICE. And then his attorney said he was detained by the agency.
Now the question has been where he will be deported while his team has filed a lawsuit in Maryland where they are contesting his detainment, as well as his deportation.
Now, the concern from the attorneys is that the administration will try to deport him to Uganda, a country with which he has no ties, but one that the administration has threatened to send him to after his team denied a plea deal where he would have pled to two federal charges and then done his criminal sentence in the United States before being deported to Costa Rica. Costa Rica however, his attorney says, would be ok, given that they
have provided protections or at least offered protections for Abrego Garcia. Uganda, however, has not provided assurances, particularly whether or not they would return him to El Salvador, a place that back in 2019, a judge said he could not be returned to over concerns of persecution.
Now, as far as the timeline, he will not be deported before Wednesday. There is another order in place blocking his deportation. Given that these proceedings are likely to be ongoing, it's unlikely that he would be deported by the end of the week, though this is still in flux.
There are still concerns as well as scheduling that is being done between the two parties -- Abrego Garcia's team and the Justice Department and the federal judge anticipates hearing more about that on Tuesday before scheduling out the rest of these proceedings.
What was also learned over the course of those proceedings is that Abrego Garcia is now in Virginia. After turning himself in in Baltimore, Maryland, he is now in a detention facility in Virginia. His team asking the judge not to move him from Virginia, given that these proceedings are still ongoing in the state of Maryland.
Priscilla Alvarez, CNN -- Washington.
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VAUSE: Another two weeks. Yet again, the U.S. President has put Vladimir Putin on notice, warning there will be very serious consequences if Russia does not make a peace deal with Ukraine within two weeks.
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VAUSE: Welcome back everyone. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM. I'm John Vause.
More threats from President Trump that Russia will face very serious consequences if it does not reach a peace deal with Ukraine within the next two weeks.
Diplomatic efforts, though, are continuing at the highest levels. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with the U.S. Envoy, General Keith Kellogg, to discuss future security arrangements for Kyiv. And the U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with Ukrainian and European foreign ministers, saying the U.S. will be involved in security guarantees, but the Europeans should take the lead.
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VAUSE: The last time Vladimir Putin failed to reach a peace deal with Ukraine within a specific timeframe, he was rewarded with a summit in Alaska with the U.S. president. As for the likelihood of a deal within two weeks, at this point, there's not even agreement on basic terms for a ceasefire.
CNN's Sebastian Shukla reports.
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SEBASTIAN SHUKLA, CNN PRODUCER: The international diplomatic effort in its attempts to bring about an end to the war in Ukraine appears to be stalling. In the week after President Trump hosted all of those key European allies to debrief after his summit in Alaska with Russian president Vladimir Putin, progress on trying to reach a ceasefire or some negotiated settlement and a trilateral summit between Moscow, Kyiv and Washington, D.C. appears to be going absolutely nowhere.
However, Vice President J.D. Vance took to the airwaves on Sunday, speaking to NBC's "Meet the Press" to say that he felt that negotiations with the Russians have showed some signs of progress and that, as he said it, the Russians have made some concessions to Donald Trump.
J.D. VANCE, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I think the Russians have made significant concessions to President Trump for the first time in three and a half years of this conflict. They've actually been willing to be flexible on some of their core demands. They've talked about what would be necessary to end the war.
Of course, they haven't been completely there yet, or the war would be over. But we're engaging in this diplomatic process in good faith. We are trying to negotiate as much as we can with both the Russians and the Ukrainians to find a middle ground, to stop the killing.
SHUKLA: In the last day and a half, at least three Ukrainians have been killed and 25 at least have been injured. One of each of those individuals killed came from the Sumy, Kharkiv and Donetsk regions of Ukraine.
What we have also seen in the last couple of days is a renewed discussion about Ukraine's ability to fire long range weapons into Russia. A "Wall Street Journal" report from over the weekend appears to suggest that a new system and protocol that would require Kyiv to request permission from Washington, D.C. to fire the U.S.-made ATACMS missiles has been put into place effectively.
What it means is that a series of requests has to go all the way up to the head of the U.S. Department of Defense, effectively the U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for him to be able to give the green light for Kyiv to fire U.S.-made missiles.
And of course, those long-range missiles have become a key piece of Ukraine's armory as it looks to shift the war back inside Russia.
Sebastian Shukla, CNN -- Berlin.
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VAUSE: Amid growing tensions with the United States, thousands of Venezuelans have answered a call from President Nicolas Maduro to volunteer for military service.
CNN's Patrick Oppmann has the very latest.
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PATRICK OPPMANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: As a small armada of U.S. Navy ships heads towards Venezuela, the most significant escalation of tensions between the two countries in years.
Embattled Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro says he's preparing for an invasion. Maduro is activating his national militia and imploring regular citizens to enlist to fight off a potential U.S. attack.
And Maduro is not letting a crisis go to waste, whipping up support in a country exhausted by years of economic decline and political strife.
NICOLAS MADURO, VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT: I am enlisting because I love my homeland. Join with your family. Join with your community. Enlist and join the ranks. Long live Venezuela.
OPPMANN: Thousands signed up over the weekend vowing to keep Maduro in power.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We defend our people and we, one way or another, are going to defend ourselves.
OPPMANN: But even as he claims to have more than four million soldiers, police and militia members ready to do battle, Maduro may be outgunned.
The Trump administration has sent at least three U.S. Navy destroyers, a submarine, attack aircraft, and 4,000 Marines to stem the flow of drugs to the U.S., which they say Maduro is responsible for.
PAM BONDI, U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL: The DOJ has seized over $700 million of Maduro-linked assets, including two private jets, nine vehicles and more. Yet Maduro's reign of terror continues. He is one of the largest narco traffickers in the world and a threat to our national security.
OPPMANN: Maduro denies any role in drug trafficking, but he is under federal indictment in New York for allegedly running a shadowy cartel of army officers turned drug lords.
This month, the Trump administration doubled the price on Maduro's head to $50 million. But collecting that reward likely would require U.S. boots on the ground.
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OPPMANN: Venezuela's roughly one and a half times the size of Texas, with dense jungles and sprawling slums controlled by heavily-armed gangs. Occupying the country would be a massive undertaking and even more complicated if Maduro makes good on his promise to arm citizen militias.
Armed conflict may still be far from certain, but a showdown is brewing off the coast of Venezuela, with neither side appearing to back down.
Patrick Oppmann, CNN.
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VAUSE: It's Elon versus ChatGPT and Apple. In a moment, details of the looming court battle over artificial intelligence.
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VAUSE: Postal services in Asia and Europe have suspended shipment of some items to the U.S. ahead of a tariff exemption, which expires on Friday. After Friday, shipments valued under $800 will no longer enter the U.S. duty-free, potentially driving up costs for small businesses and online shoppers.
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VICTOR NEGRESCU, VICE PRESIDENT, EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: This is really Disruptive for small businesses especially and artisans that were shipping small goods to the U.S.
What is difficult right now for postal offices in Europe is to really understand how to comply with the new regulations that is going to enter into force.
Basically, they need to collect the taxes and we don't know how to do that. In the same time the postal services need to transfer those taxes to U.S. authorities. And this has not been defined yet either.
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VAUSE: Last year, more than four millions of these shipments were processed every day by U.S. Customs.
Donald Trump is firing back at critics after his administration took a controversial 10 percent stake in chipmaker Intel. On Truth Social, he said the deal is already creating jobs and wealth. The government's $11 billion stake was paid for by grants awarded to Intel under the Chips Act.
Despite criticism from both sides of the aisle, Trump says he is eager to make more deals just like that one. White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett told CNBC Intel is just the start.
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KEVIN HASSETT, WHITE HOUSE ECONOMIC ADVISER: I think this is a very, very special circumstance because of the massive amount of Chips Act spending that was coming Intel's way.
But the president has made it clear all the way back to the campaign that he thinks that in the end, it would be great if the U.S. could start to build up a sovereign wealth fund. And so I'm sure that at some point there will be more transactions, if not in this industry and other industries.
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VAUSE: Elon Musk is taking Apple and OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT to court, accusing the two tech giants of collusion to block competition from his A.I. startup Grok.
CNN's Clare Duffy has details.
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CLARE DUFFY, CNN TECH REPORTER: Yes. Musk here following through on a threat he made several weeks ago accusing Apple and OpenAI of anti- competitive behavior. He's going after a partnership that Apple formed with OpenAI to incorporate ChatGPT onto iPhones and other Apple products.
And Musk is essentially accusing the company of prioritizing ChatGPT over other A.I. Platforms, including his X and Grok, part of his company X-AI. And in particular, he's going after Apple for what he alleges is not putting X and Grok at the top of the top free apps list on Apple's App Store.
Of course, I don't think that this takes into account the fact that other rivals to ChatGPT like DeepSeek and Perplexity have indeed risen the ranks on Apple's top free apps list.
And this is also just the latest in Musk's ongoing legal tussle with OpenAI. He previously sued OpenAI to try to stop its conversion into a for-profit company. OpenAI fired back with its own countersuit, accusing Musk of harassment.
And after Musk made this threat against Apple and OpenAI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman fired back on X, essentially accusing Musk of being a hypocrite. He said "This is a remarkable claim, given what I've heard alleged that Elon does to manipulate X to benefit himself and his own companies and harm his competitors and people he doesn't like."
So we're really seeing the A.I. arms race moving into the courtroom.
Clare Duffy, CNN -- New York.
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VAUSE: And with that, we'll take a short break. We'll be right back.
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VAUSE: To Vietnam now where Typhoon Kajiki made landfall Monday, forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands of people. The storm uprooted trees and sent ocean waves crashing into streets. At least one person was killed. Kajiki has since weakened to a tropical storm, but is still bringing rain to parts of Southeast Asia.
CNN's Allison Chinchar has the forecast.
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ALLISON CHINCHAR, AMS METEOROLOGIST: The typhoon may just be remnants now but it did cause quite a significant amount of damage across portions of China that you can see here. Lots of trees down, some street lights, basically debris littering a lot of these roadways that you can see here.
Also too, causing some damage across Vietnam where it just recently made landfall. Again, the remnants are all that is left. And you can see the storms really begin to weaken quickly as it makes its way westward. It will continue to do so over the next 12 to 24 hours but it's expected to be a much weaker storm the farther it moves inland.
One of the bigger concerns has been rainfall with this storm. Looking at just the last 24 hours, you have several areas that have picked up a pretty decent amount of rainfall.
But now we're going to be adding even more rain on top of it as the storm continues to make its way off to the west.
Widespread totals -- that yellow color you see here -- you're looking at about 50 to 100 millimeters. But in those areas where you see the orange and the red color, now you're talking in excess of 150 or even 200 millimeters of rain before this system finally exits the area.
Winds are also going to be a concern, but those are expected to die down very quickly. You will still have some areas with wind gusts around 30 to 50 kilometers per hour, but that's really going to be in about the next 6 to 12 hours.
After that, we really start to see the remnants of this storm begin to finally fade away.
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VAUSE: Thank you for watching. I'm John Vause.
Please stay with us. CNN NEWSROOM continues with my friend and colleague Rosemary Church after a very short break.
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